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in reply to: Bear Scouting Pics #39231

etter1 wrote: The trails in the mtns are all made by bear, deer, and hogs and they’ve been there for generations.

The food plots will be useless as soon as the acorns mature, but we’ve been planning on that. Can’t wait til Sept 14!

Do you ever get distracted by a big fat pig? I’m guessing pigs are legal all year?

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in reply to: Wild Voices #38808

tradhunter1 wrote: Paleo,

You come up with some of the best topics and some of the off the wall topics. 😀

I too love the sounds of late summer and early fall, the sound of the morning doves seem crisper, the calls of the ducks and geese beginning to flock up for the pending trip south, and later in the fall the sounds of the cranes and swans migrating through along with the snows and blues, hmmmm I need to start my wood cutting…. 😯 Maaayyybbeeee next weekend. For now a cup of coffee, calm morning and my loyal huntin lab, Dakota, at my feet- ahhh heaven…. 😀 until season opens of course. 😉

Thanks for the comment up there. I actually had a traumatic brain injury in my teens. So, all my shortcomings and stupid posts I blame on that:lol:

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in reply to: Celebration #38558

If it’s earlier in the a.m. and I’ve got time, I’ll build a small fire and just sit a bit. Being miles from nowhere with the north woods wind going through the spruce tops, maybe a raven croaking as he swishes overhead….can be pretty profound no matter how many times you’ve done. Then I usually look around for my knife that I put down in the leaves after the field dressing:D

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in reply to: Maps of Australia #37875

Thanks for the offer. The thought of the desert outback kind of blows my mind in general!

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in reply to: 2013 hunting rigs #37851

Smithhammer wrote: Ugh – I fear I’m back to the drawing board. I’ve been enjoying shooting my hybrids so much lately, and how quiet and light they are, that I can’t make up my mind…

I get all messed up when I have too many options. More than 1 or 2 bows I can’t process it:lol:

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in reply to: Sacred Places #35429

David Petersen wrote: Paleo — I’m in the process of losing my sacred place right now. It’s too much like the staggering blow of losing dear old friends. That’s about all I can bear to say about it.

Very strange coincidence. I make a post in part on loss. The mention above in losing people. Not more than a few minutes after this my good friend and hunting partner over many years called to say his wife passed. Here’ s to all the friends, spouses and others who have enriched our outdoor lives.

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in reply to: Anti attack! #31764

aaah….Dave..I was set to ask all the relevant questions. Then I saw the pics. I see you HAVE resorted to baiting:lol:

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in reply to: Topics #31640

Fair enough! Thanks for the reminder. I will curb my occasional tendency to wander off. Lots of good scent around here sends me down too many rabbit runs sometimes!

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in reply to: 2013 hunting rigs #31610

45# @ 28″ Jim Reynolds Hunter longbow. Carbon Express 150s with a 125 gr Magnus broad head. I hope the pic posts because I’m still no good at resizing.

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in reply to: Treed Partridges and trail cams #31499

Dave – I’ll only add that whitails at low densities in vast tracts such as Maine, northern New England, etc., must be as close to unpatternable as western critters? The bucks in this country seem to roam miles and days before, if ever it seems, they come back. I refer to the general rut period.

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in reply to: Treed Partridges and trail cams #31378

I haven’t used a trail cam to date either. I’m fine with the boots and eyes on the ground approach, and as I’ve said before, the kill is of less importance to me these days anyway. What comes, comes…or I move. Less is more and if someday I die like old Otzi (sp?) and no one finds me for 10k years, at least I’ll give ’em a good scare when they roll me over…and a puzzle for the new age archaeologists why this guy wasn’t carrying 50 pieces of catalog technology common to the era. All that said, have fun with them, I’m not morally opposed either.

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in reply to: ARROWS #29727

I’ll check it out. It may inspire me to start making my own. Good luck w the surgery. If you get morphine…enjoy:D!

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in reply to: Moose & Ticks #29453

ausjim wrote: [quote=Doc Nock]the speculation ran from sublime to ridiculous, including global warming, etc.

I would have thought something like increasing temperatures for a given area would be a rather reasonable explanation for animals extending their population range?

I never in my life growing up in the NE saw a tick and I pretty much lived in the woods. Tragedy is how much CO2 I dumped knowingly, getting there, that in my opinion aggravates the whole mess we’re in.

opinion is

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in reply to: Bucket list hunt #22011

If I had a bucket list, it would be spent in the wilds of the Adirondacks, or any of the wilder, more remote regions of the northeast. Those places are home to my soul. Big buck sign a few miles in, that’ s all I need to be content anymore. The need for a kill is almost nil.

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in reply to: grouse and woodcock #20879

R2 wrote: Never tried driving down the road and popping them out the window with a longbow. Game warden would probably laugh himself silly and let me go :D:D:D

When I used to hunt CO and NM I always carried a blunt or judo just for fool’s hens. Mighty tasty bout anyway you can fix them.

Before the drought we had plenty of quail but I never shot a flu flu fast enough to catch up with the little buggers. Was fun though. Lot of times when oozing around looking for deer and I could here a covey twittering, talking to each other. The stalk would begin and even knowing where they were the flush would scare the s#%* outta me. Always the first one up be from where I didn’t consider one being 😉

When I was younger and not much dumber I kept flushing a grouse from the same spot over and over. I figured I’d just blast the spot one day…the bird blew out of there when I went to pick it up:wink: My sense of fair chase has matured since! I’d shoot one on the ground with a bow though!

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